Poster from TMDB
Roadgames
Sign in to saveAlso known as Road Games
Roadgames (stylised as Road Games) is a 1981 Australian thriller film directed by Richard Franklin and starring Stacy Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis. The film follows a truck driver travelling across Australia who, with the help of a hitchhiker, seeks to track down a serial killer who is butchering women and dumping their dismembered bodies along desolate highways.
Film · TMDB
6.5A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer in a van who lures young female hitchhiker victims on a desolate Australian highway.
Cast
- Stacy Keach as Patrick 'Pat' Quid
- Jamie Lee Curtis as Pamela 'Hitch' Rushworth
- Marion Edward as Madeleine 'Frita' Day
- Grant Page as Smith or Jones
- Thaddeus Smith as Policeman 'Abbott'
- Steve Millichamp as Policeman 'Costello'
Themes
- australia
- truck
- serial killer
- hitchhiker
- truck driver
- suspenseful
This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
Key facts
- Film.name
- Roadgames
- Film.image
- Roadgames.jpg
- Film.caption
- Theatrical release poster
- Film.director
- Richard Franklin
- Film.producer
- Richard Franklin
- Film.screenplay
- Everett De Roche
- Film.music
- Brian May
- Film.cinematography
- Vincent Monton
- Film.editing
- Edward McQueen-Mason
- Film.runtime
- 101 minutes
- Film.country
- Australia
- Film.language
- English
- Film.budget
- A$1.75 million
via Wikipedia infobox
Internet Archive
audioGSB190: No One Will Save You, Wolf & Roadgames plus een Halloween Top 3
Listen at Internet Archive →via archive.org
Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 99
Show 3 more facts
- publication date
- 1984-08-17
- title
- Roadgames
- review score
- 92%
Sources (9)
via Wikidata · CC0
~10 min read
Article
17 sectionsContents
- Plot
- Cast
- Production
- Development
- Filming
- Casting
- Release
- Home media
- Reception
- Box office
- Critical response
- Accolades
- Legacy
- See also
- Bibliography
- References
- External links
Roadgames (stylised as Road Games) is a 1981 Australian thriller film directed by Richard Franklin and starring Stacy Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis. The film follows a truck driver travelling across Australia who, with the help of a hitchhiker, seeks to track down a serial killer who is butchering women and dumping their dismembered bodies along desolate highways.
==Plot== In rural Australia, expatriate American truck driver Patrick Quid pulls into a motel for the night. There, a man in a green van checks in with a female hitchhiker, whom Quid had passed by because of trucking company policy. In their motel room, the hitchhiker strums a guitar while the man unpacks a new guitar string and forms it into a noose. He winds the string around his gloved hands and uses it to garrote the woman.